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- 26 November 1941: Tolkien on the introduction by Professor George S. Gordon of lightheartedness to dour Yorkshire students of English literature at Leeds in the 1910s
- 15 May 1890: A Liverpudlian company – now ruined – finds on appeal that the consent of its Halifax lender isn’t needed to sue the Sowerby Bridge flour coop for patent piracy
- 16 February 1114: The morbidly obese Archbishop Thomas II of York ignores medical advice and dies chaste, unlike an 18th century successor
- 27 February 1390: Robert de Ellerbeck, mercer, walks into York Council on the Ouse bridge with a question for a certain Ralph del See
- 14 February 1482: Robert Rede Gyrdewler tells the York authorities of pub canvassing in favour of Thomas Wrangwith, the future Richard III’s candidate for mayor
- 2 October 1880: The Leeds Mercury reproduces a typographical intemperance tree from the 1840s origins of the Band of Hope
- 25 September 1880: Thomas Harper reveals to the Leeds Mercury’s young readers a mnemonic song of monarchs (except Oliver) used in the village school at Weldrake (York) in the 1770s
- 18 September 1880: An elderly reader of the Leeds Mercury recounts in its children’s column a pre-1839 alternative to flogging in a one-room school
- 21 August 1880: Wildflowers in the children’s column of the local newspaper
- 27 April 1888: Edwin Wild (6 months) of Sheffield is attacked for his milk by a ratting ferret while being cared for by his grandparents
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